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On September 24, 1815, John Sevier (DR), representative for Tennessee's 2nd district, died in office. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy December 7–8, 1815.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes	Percent
William G. Blount	Democratic-Republican	1,583	48.4%
John Cocke	Democratic-Republican	1,355	41.5%
George Dougherty		330	10.1%

Blount took office on January 8, 1816

References

"View Election". elections.lib.tufts.edu. Archived from the original on January 6, 2013.
"View Election". Archived from the original on January 6, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 6, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 65

[1] "View Election". elections.lib.tufts.edu. Archived from the original on January 6, 2013.

[2] "View Election". Archived from the original on January 6, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2012.

[3] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 6, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 65

On September 24 1815 John Sevier DR representative for Tennessee s 2nd district died in office A special election was he

1815 Tennessee's 2nd congressional district special election

Election results

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References